Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1887-06-02

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will go into effect June 1 and have been
made up. The amount OF reduction Isl ON
10 to % per cent. as seen by a compari
son oil old rates and new TO a few import.
ant points.
Mai. {. Nice. Reeve has been elected lieut.
tenant colonel OF the First regiment, N. G..
). M. His post as major WAS filled by The
election OF Capt. Pierce OF Red Wing to the
position.
Pat Sheedy, manager OF John L. Snlll-
van says: | 10 not intend to make any
match with kilrain or any body else until
that arm Is entiely we'll. S~uliivan's arh
IS not in good condition at all as yet. lie
can hardly close his hand. The ehalloDgsr
plainly states in his challenge the fight
must be within fifty miles of Baltimore DIR
PIttsburg and how ean "a bare knuckle
fight take place there7 said Kilrain was
a coward, but IL he re~pudiates assertions
in newspapers alleged as coming from
him, | will retract what have said.
Pensions granted: Minnesota. NJ,
mother OF f.. L. Matte, Brainerd; original,
IL. G. Nichols, Camden; j. Williamson, Co
logne; increased, p. Barbean, Suel. Dak6-
ta-W. II. Brown, Michigan City; ii. q. e.
Rose, Millbank; I, Delehart, Bismarck; j.
N. Bull, Clark. Postmaster commissions
Iowa: Houghton, j.. Carhoff.
Mr.. Charles Croker, the California ma
bob. is said to be worth $50. 900, 600. He
could easily afford to give his daughter a
check for 81, 200, 600 on her wedding day,
as he did.
Col. Robert ~IngersoIl's eldest daughter is
beautiful. and is described by u chronieler
as "a Greek goddess"
John Boyd, a butcher OF Rockford,
Mich, last summer murdered w. b.. JOHN
son. Boyd was hall crazed witt liquor at
the time. He was sentenced to prison for
life. Annie Boyd, his vile, sued Christoyih.
or Post, Il saloonist Of Rockford, for selling
her husband liquor, claiming $50, 900
damages. A verdict was rendered giving
the woman 50, 800.
Madame lie Hyde, a ~wellknown soprano
and leading singer ut the st. Paul cathe-
dral in Pittsburg, hanged herself. Cause,
ill health and arrangement.
Sir Charles Topper, the Canadian finance
minister, swore, not long ago, that he
Canada, as to raw material and labor,
that the iron industry would rival that
OF the United States"
The treasury department is about to
undertake a novel experiment with re.
spect to the currency OF the Pacific states,
Its the intention OF the department to
substitute paper currency so far ms pos.
sible for the gold coin which has so long
been in use in the Pacific states. The
legal tenders have never been popular in
California. Gold is still the principal
medium OF exchange there.
In the case of S, X. Jeggsruel vs.. Mime
apolis K st. Louis, the jury Mt Albert Lea
gave the plaintiff $4,000. The defendant
obstructed a crossing at the village of Hart
land by which the plaintiff received injuries
| in I ASR from which ia utfiI urffar,
Mrs. Cleveland has written several pretty
little notes OF congratulation to Washing
ton girls whose engagements have r~eceatly
been announced.
G. c. Maginnis gets the Duluth land Office
receivership. He is a brother OF Major
Maginnis oil Montana.
At Wabasha. in the case OF the state
against David Winning, charged with com.
uniting rape on AnEie Nining, his grand
daughter. the jury found the prisoner guilty
of assault with intent TO commit rape.
Hon. Daniel w. VOORHEES, OF Terre Haute,
Ind, the Tall Sycamore of the Wabash"
and u democratic statesman, is paying his
first visit to st. Paul and Minnesota, in
company with Col. Tom II. Nelson, ex.
minister to Mexico, and a resident of
Terre Haute.
James Johnson has commenced suit in
the United States circuit court to recover
$50. too from John g.. Nelson at st. Paul
ct al. for injuries received. The complaint
sets forth that the complainant was EN-
ployed in a saw mill owned by the defend
ant in st. Croix county, Wis, Senator
Sabin of Minnesota passed through New
York on his way to Boston a day or two
ago. lie talked confidently about his
business affairs and declares that he has
at last shaped them so that he viii emerge
successfully from the Saltwater Car com.
pany failure with both credit and cash on
his side OF the ledger.
Senator Keller reports in st. Cloud that
a coal mine has been discovered near Sank
Centre, Stearns county.
On June l the st. Paul & Duluth win re.
duee soft coal rates from SIPS to ST per
ton between Duluth and st. Paul, Minnea.
polls or Saltwater.
Madame Janauschek, after her perform
ance at Newport, r. l., while visiting one
of the members OF her company 10 the
Perry house, fell down a fight OF l. stairs,
breaking one of the bones OF her right fore
arm. ami badly b~rnisins her whole body.
In New York Miss Eva Heaton, known on
the stage as Etelka Wardell, VINO has sus-
tanned the leading role in 9TH White
Slave, 'The Wages ofSin" and other plays,
was successful in a suit to recover $4,000
and interest on a note given her in 1882 by
Leonard +. Tracy. the husband of the well
known actress, Helen Dauvrey.
A Nebraska mother finds her 17-year-old
daughter in a low Sioux City bagnio where
an Omaha drummer, who had sedueed her,
left her helpless.
The president has appointed Mai. j. L.
Rathbone of California to be consul gAner-
al at Paris. Mai. Rathbone was born in
Albany, n. Y, of which city his father was
mayor. He Was educated at West Point,
and served for several years on the staff OF
Maj. Gen. Schoilcld. After resigning IRON
the army, fifteen years ago, he located in
California.
Francisco Stakes, deputy United States
marshal at Garlic, Texas, shot and kill
ed his wife and then blew his own brains
out. For some time the vile OF Stalker has
been accusing him OF improper relations
with his daughter, aged nineteen.
At Stubinyille, Ohio. seven thousand
dollars worth OF bonds, the property OF
Mrs. McWha, that hays been missing since
she and her daughter, Mrs. Baker, we're
murdered at Holidays Cove, were found
under the marble top Of gashstand in
sheroom icrmerly occupied by the old lady.
The commercial and financial public will
need to have no further apprehension as
to the call OF bonds The last OF the out.
standing 3 per cents has been called III, the
aggregate amounting to SIT. 000, 600. No
more calls will now be possible until the
maturity OF the next series OF bonds.
Meanwhile 1t viii be for the treasury to
determine whether any OF the surplus shall
be devoted to the purchase OF bonds in the
open market at current premium or not.
A phase in the co<e strike at E7arson,
Pa, when a mob OF 800 miners, marching
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denly appeared on the coke yard ut the
Jimtown works of Col. Schoonnlaker.
Without warning they made a savage at,
tack on the eight or ten men who were
drawing out the coke from the ovens there.
Such Of the laborers as could not escape
were cruelty beaten.
Officers who served during the war OF the
rebellion are generally unaware that the
following has become a law: Correction of
muster-Under the law approved FEBRUARY
3, 1887, officers OF the late war can nave
their muster amended so as to date back
to the tim they we're appointed to act as
officers, or to the date OF the body 81 their
commissions. This viii entitic them toin-
creased pay, and IL they draw a pension
they car have it increased by re-datine
back to the time il was granted.
Secretary Lamar and the president pro.
pose 0 to restore all -unappropriated
lands within the indemnity limits to settle
ment.
In the house OF Col. King-Har-
man, parliamentary under secretary for
Ireland. said: The remarkable INCREASE Of
emigration from Irelan1 should DO attri-
buted partly to the growing want of EN-.
ployment in Ireland, partly to the fear en-
tertained by the masses how the crimes
act would enable the authorities to punish
persons for past violations OF law and
partly 30 the TACT that numbers az Irish
people were forced to leave the country be-
cause OF Discrimination to ioil secret socie.
ties. MeDonald-Is not the Increase ofemi-
grafton due to the introduction of the
crimes bill and desire of the Irish peopleto